“This isn’t obligatory, so whenever you’re approaching a shipowner, you possibly can’t go in with one thing all-singing, all-dancing – they will say they have a enterprise to run,” he stated. The pitch that works, he argued, hyperlinks welfare on to industrial outcomes already being measured by the business, together with the Tanker Administration Self-Evaluation (TMSA) and Dry Bulk Administration System schemes, each of which issue crew welfare into vessel rankings that charterers actively use to decide on ships.


